That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells… — Amor Towles Cities Copy Share Image
“But having mastered the art of descending the stairs to a gathering of admirers, she had yet to master the art of… — Amor Towles Art Copy Share Image
“For standing at the edge of his table was the young girl with the penchant for yellow—studying him with that unapologetic interest… — Amor Towles Children Copy Share Image
“A slouching posture tends to suggest a certain laziness of character as well as a lack of interest in others. Whereas an… — Amor Towles Posture Copy Share Image
“What was your favorite day of the year? The summer solstice. June twenty-first. The longest day of the year.” — Amor Towles Favorite day Copy Share Image
I make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the characters, and I know… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Without a doubt. But imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness.” — Amor Towles Doubt Copy Share Image
“I told him I'd always found the description a little too long on adjectives and a little too short on specifics.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Right from the first, I could see a calmness in you - that sort of inner tranquility that they write about in… — Amor Towles Books Copy Share Image
“it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born… — Amor Towles Culture Copy Share Image
“If one had lived one's day well- in the service of industry, liberty, and the Lord- one should be soundly asleep long… — Amor Towles Freedom Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, we had our own Joads--ill clothed and beleaguered, trudging along the alleyways past the oil drum fires, past the shanties and… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Each city has its own romantic season. Once a year, a city's architectural, cultural and horticultural variables come into alignment with the… — Amor Towles Autumn Copy Share Image
“But as the Count advanced through Essays Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen, his goal seemed to recede into the distance. It was suddenly… — Amor Towles Books Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the… — Amor Towles Behavior Copy Share Image
“For pomp is a tenacious force. And a wily one too. How humbly it bows its head as the emperor is dragged… — Amor Towles Emperor Copy Share Image
“At the greatest cost! But do you think the achievements of the Americans—envied the world over—came without a cost? Just ask their… — Amor Towles Success Copy Share Image
“I have had countless reasons to be proud of you; and certainly one of the greatest was the night of the Conservatory… — Amor Towles Applause Copy Share Image
As a traveler, I should probably count myself fortunate to be living in the jet age, and as an author, I know… — Amor Towles Age Copy Share Image
“Sometimes,” Nina clarified, “everybody tells you something because they are everybody. But why should one listen to everybody? Did everybody write the… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“And the waiters? Like those of a Parisian café, the Piazza’s waiters could best be complimented as “efficient.” Accustomed” — Amor Towles Waiters Copy Share Image
“It was a matter of making it through the night, which is often harder than it sounds, and always a very individual… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“chance encounters—encounters which in the moment had seemed so haphazard and effervescent but which with time took on some semblance of fate.” — Amor Towles Chance encounters Copy Share Image
“The scientists call it human nature; which is just a fancy term for the God-given flaws we have no intention of giving… — Amor Towles Flaws Copy Share Image
I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“But surely, you didn't juggle oranges," said Emile. "No," Andrey admitted, as he carefully returned the oranges to the counter. "I juggled… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“But at forty? They had enough appetite to eat well, enough temperance to drink in moderation, and enough wisdom to celebrate the… — Amor Towles Appetite Copy Share Image
“To have even one year when you're presented with choices that can alter your circumstances, your character, your course- that's by the… — Amor Towles Choices Copy Share Image
“Bred with just the right amount of fresh air, roughhousing, and ignorance, these primitive blondes set out from the cornfields looking like… — Amor Towles Blondes Copy Share Image
“For what was civilization but the intellect’s ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of… — Amor Towles Civilization Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one… — Amor Towles Book Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50… — Amor Towles Age Copy Share Image
“..the Zimmers sharpening their sarcasm. Over an early dinner, they chipped away at each other like little Michelangelos, placing every stroke of… — Amor Towles Religion Copy Share Image
If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I’d have been shooting them all my life. — Amor Towles Confidence Copy Share Image
“Knowing beauty, influence, fame, and privilege to be borrowed rather than bestowed, they are not easily impressed. They” — Amor Towles Beauty Copy Share Image
What can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a… — Amor Towles First impression Copy Share Image
“a careful accounting of days allows the isolated to note that another year of hardship has been endured; survived; bested.” — Amor Towles Another year Copy Share Image
“It rattled into the station like it was coming from another century. The interior lights cast a half-hearted glow over the nocturnal… — Amor Towles Light Copy Share Image
